Works Of Art Quotes - Page 7

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Art, Causes, Emotion

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

  George Inness

  Art, Mind, Doe

  George Inness, Nicolai Cikovsky, Michael Quick, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “George Inness”, HarperCollins

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Nature, Space

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 24, p. 431, 1985.

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• Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Influence, Found

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• Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Simple, May

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• But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Art, Love Is

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• Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.

  Robert Grudin

  Art, Inspiration, Creativity

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

  Richard Blanco

  Art, Rest Of Your Life, Life Is

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Art, Grandchildren, Treasure

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Art, Thinking, Creative

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• I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Age, Painting

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.126, Vintage

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• A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Writing

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• Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Saws

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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• Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

  Chet Baker

  Art, Media, Greek

  Song: My Funny Valentine

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• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Art, Dollars, Guilty

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• There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Truthful, Made

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• Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Use, Form

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• In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Order, Different

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

  Ovid

  Art, Chance, Increase

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• O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Lessons, Shapes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.217

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• Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Infidelity

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Translations, Originals

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